potato
/pəˈteɪ.toʊ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Do not let your child have potato for another year; he will probably take milk well enough after he is weaned."
- "The protein value of this dish is equal to that of 1⅛ pounds of potato and beef, the fuel value, however, being much in excess of these."
- "A number of the children said that they had potato for breakfast, potato and herring for dinner, potato and milk for supper."
- "What was that about potatoes? Were they just a thing from foreign parts, like coffee; a luxury, an extra? Oh, the potato is a lordly fruit; drought or downpour, it grows and grows all the same. It laughs at the weather, and will stand anything; only deal kindly with it, and it yields fifteen-fold again. … A man may lack grain to make bread, but give him potatoes and he will not starve. Roast them in embers, and there is supper; boil them in water, and there's a breakfast ready."
- "Although the potato actually has no exciting value, it was believed, in the seventeenth century, to possess definite aphrodisiac qualities, and is frequent mentioned in this respect in Elizabethan drama."
- "Potatoes were introduced to Ireland in 1590 after being brought to Europe by Spanish conquistadores from their place of origin in the South American Andes."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /pəˈteɪ.toʊ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
air potato
air-potato
all that and a bag of potato chips
almond potato
Amandine potato
Andean potato
Andean potato latent virus
Andean potato mottle virus